Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/babeld: bump to version 1.10

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello,

On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:28:43 +0200
Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@amarulasolutions.com> wrote:

> This is the response from Juliusz Chroboczek, one of the maintainers of
> the project:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1.9.2 was released in April 2020, it's over four years old.  Some features
> were removed in 1.13, but there's really no reason to run anything older
> than 1.12.2.
> 
> > What happened to it?  
> 
> It's been moved into the archive directory:
> 
>   https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/files/old/

Please reply to him that moving files around breaks things for build
systems and Linux distributions. It is _really_ not nice.

> So at this point, I can change the official repository from which to download
> version 1.9.2 and then proceed with a version bump.

Yes, use the Github repo, at least it's stable.

Another option is to drop the package entirely. It was added by Maxime
Hadjinlian back in 2016, and Maxime is no longer using Buildroot. The
last bump was done by Sergio Prado in 2020, and nobody touched the
package since then, despite an active upstream. Nobody is associated to
it in the DEVELOPERS file.

Thanks!

Thomas
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